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realizes the consequences of atomic and hydrogen war, but until there is sensible and secure international control, it intends to go on improving nuclear weapons and trying to establish defenses against them...
...months scientists and newsmen in the U.S. and around the world had been speculating about the peril of "fall-out" after atomic and hydrogen explosions...
Cigar-Shaped Peril. In the Pacific last March, the hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll sent a shower of deadly radioactive dust (mostly pulverized coral) over a vast cigar-shaped area extending 220 miles downwind from the blast. Along a strip up to 20 miles wide, extending 140 miles downwind, the fall-out-if it had come down in a populated area-would have seriously threatened the lives of nearly every human. At a distance of 160 miles the lives of half the people would be threatened; at 190 miles 5% to 10% might die (varying with individual reaction...
Britain announced last week that it can and soon will produce its own hydrogen bombs. The decision was announced in a tough-minded White Paper on Defense...
...further research stepped up the efficiency of electronic detection, and Air Force engineers learned to cut arctic construction time by prefabrication and preassembly techniques, cost estimates for the DEW line dropped to about $250 million. After the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb and displayed a 600-m.p.h. long-range jet bomber last year, the U.S. and Canada decided to go ahead with DEW. Equipment too bulky to fly will move in by sea convoy during the brief shipping season...